R ECYCLING By: Krista VandenHeuvel

TEKS (T EXAS E SSENTIAL K NOWLEDGE AND S KILLS ) (2) Recurring themes are pervasive in sciences, mathematics, and technology. These ideas transcend disciplinary boundaries and include patterns, cycles, systems, models, and change and constancy. (3) The study of elementary science includes planning and safely implementing classroom and outdoor investigations using scientific processes, including inquiry methods, analyzing information, making informed decisions, and using tools to collect and record information, while addressing the major concepts and vocabulary, in the context of physical, earth, and life sciences. These are two of the recommendations given by TEKS. TEKS believes that students should both do these things and learn them while in second grade, so that is what I am aiming for with my lesson.

B LOOMS T AXONOMY There are two main levels that I want the students to master from my lesson. Comprehension/Understanding and Application/Applying. I want the students to understand how important it is to recycle, and how everything that we recycle gets used again. They will be able to explain the process to me. I also want the students to apply it to their life. Many families in the area do not recycle, and I would like to see the students make a difference in their own home by doing using this information to do so.

W HAT I AM G OING T O D O !!! I plan on giving a lesson that involves group work, teacher instruction, and individual practice. I will be explaining to them how recycling works, and when we don’t recycle, all of the “trash” just goes into the ground. I will then give them a sheet to fill out on what they think is ok for the earth and what is not. We will then take a number of different items (that were on the sheet they filled out), and bury them into the ground. Two months later, we will unbury them and see what has dissolved and what is still whole. This will show them how important it is to recycle.

T HESE ITEMS WILL BE GOING IN THE GROUND … LETS SEE HOW THEY WILL DO

E SSENTIAL /U NIT Q UESTIONS Some things that I may like to ask: What happens to the trash you throw away? What happens to the materials that you recycle? Which one is better for the Earth? What type of items can you recycle? Who do you give your recycled items to? What are the long term affects if we do not recycle?

Q UESTIONS S TUDENTS M AY A SK M E Do you recycle? What is recycling? Is it important? Where does trash go? What happens to the recycled materials? I am confident that I would be able to thoroughly answer these questions.

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